The whole minimum HW requirements is so bullshit. I have a stick pc and a tablet with some Atom CPU, 2Gb RAM, that run W10 reasonably well. No rockets and will probably choke on many apps, but for web stuff (just don’t keep more than 2-3 tabs open) media playing, and light stuff they are surprisingly capable. I have installed Antix Linux on one, and it’s a really capable machine.
Kinda, they excluded CPU’s that are no longer supported by Intel. If a vulnerability happens, Intel isn’t going to willingly provide microcode fixes. I’d say it’s old enough it’s safe, but history has proven that to be a dicey proposition. TPM was arguably bad architecture with vulnerabilities; it’s just protecting the boot chain, but BitLocker is already fucked 7 ways to Sunday.
Trying to up their security for corporations is understandable, that’s not to say this isn’t a hard push to get people to upgrade because providing support for 10 probably costs them a lot of money.
Requiring TPM at the install check but not actually requiring it to run is bullshit.
LUKS on Linux is far better at protecting your equipment.
The whole minimum HW requirements is so bullshit. I have a stick pc and a tablet with some Atom CPU, 2Gb RAM, that run W10 reasonably well. No rockets and will probably choke on many apps, but for web stuff (just don’t keep more than 2-3 tabs open) media playing, and light stuff they are surprisingly capable. I have installed Antix Linux on one, and it’s a really capable machine.
Kinda, they excluded CPU’s that are no longer supported by Intel. If a vulnerability happens, Intel isn’t going to willingly provide microcode fixes. I’d say it’s old enough it’s safe, but history has proven that to be a dicey proposition. TPM was arguably bad architecture with vulnerabilities; it’s just protecting the boot chain, but BitLocker is already fucked 7 ways to Sunday.
Trying to up their security for corporations is understandable, that’s not to say this isn’t a hard push to get people to upgrade because providing support for 10 probably costs them a lot of money.
Requiring TPM at the install check but not actually requiring it to run is bullshit.
LUKS on Linux is far better at protecting your equipment.
I have the same as a fileserver - I’ll have to take a look at what is antix, as arch has dropped support for 32bit…
Antix is a Debian based distro for old/minimal computers. Antix has a 32 bit flavor, but applications the support 32 bit are dwindling.